Princess Justice

The Pearl of the Heart

-With Master Fu-

"This is very bad Tikki. It's a good thing we have these monthly meet ups now." Master Fu said, with deep worry as he had just finished hearing what the little red kwamii had just said. "If Marinette were to be akumatized while wearing the Ladybug earrings, not only will it be easy for Hawkmoth to obtain them, but it will also put her in danger. Revealing that she is Lady." He added.

"That girl at school, Lila is really giving Marinette a hard time. She seems to be a very good liar,  when Marinette tries to confront her, she makes it look like Marinette is the bad one. I had heard when Lila came back to school, she told Marinette that she do everything to make all of her friends turn their backs on her. I'm worried Master." Responded Tikki with a sad look in her eyes.

"Hmm, It's a good thing I chose Viperion this time. If Marinette were to fall victim to Hawkmoth's akuma, his second chance will definitely come in handy for this battle. Marinette is indeed a very special person, she's is very creative. Which makes her act quickly in tough situations. But that would also make her a very powerful and dangerous enemy, if she were to be akumatized." Master Fu let out a heavy sigh as he got up.

"Let's not think that way Master, Marinette would never let herself be used by Hawkmoth." Tikki said trying to ease the Guardian's mind.

"I have no doubt about the strength in Marinette's heart. But you must remember, she is still human and very young. As humans we can only take so much heart ache until it becomes so much to bare. Loosing the trust of both her parents and closest friends is not easy." Master Fu said as he reached for a small boxed filled with colored treats, that Marinette had helped him prepare should she or Chat Noir ever need the extra power-ups.

"Come, Wayzz. We must give these to Viperion and inform Chat Noir about the special pink colored power up." Master Fu called for his long time companion.

"Master, wouldn't it be easier to find a temporary Ladybug?" Asked the little green kwamii.

"No. Finding a person to wear the Ladybug earrings will be very difficult. It even more so to find someone who will willing return them. We're running out of time. I'm sure Chat Noir and Viperion can succeed. Adrien seems to see through all these lies. As for Viperion I believe Marinette made a good choice for the snake miraculous holder, Luka? Was it? He seems to have a strong heart and is able to think levelheaded, which makes him the perfect ally for Chat Noir." Said Master Fu as he headed for Collège Françoise Dupont, along with the two kwamiis.

-Meanwhile at school-

Adrien met up with Luka on their lunch break. Luka, with a hopeful tone asked the blonde model, "Were you able to convince her to admit what she did to Marinette?"
To which Adrien sadly nodded no, "It was not easy getting to talk to her alone, especially now since she always has that crowd with her. I did manage to get her alone for a moment but she said that she had no idea what I was talking about. And once I was starting to raise my tone the other started to come back again, of course she started her little victim act. Seems like we can't reason with her." Adrien let out an annoyed sigh, as he finished informing Luka about his interaction with Lila.
Upon hearing this Luka looked down and asked "Now what?" To which Adrien simply replied "I'm not sure anymore."

-Back at the Bakery with Marinette-

After the morning rush of customers constantly coming for their early snack or fast breakfast, the bakery had finally calmed down. Sure there were still a few customers who were there for a quick lunch but it wasn't too busy. So Sabine had told her that she could go upstairs and take a breather. Marinette nodded and headed up the stairs that lead up to her house 'It's a good thing we kept busy, it made forget about the whole thing that was going on.' She thought as she grabbed a snack to eat. She opened up her phone which she noticed didnt have any missed messages. So she started browsing through social media, scrolling through the pictures of the page she had seen a couple of updates. Chloe's social media had a recent picture of new pairs of shoes that she recently got from Audry Bourgeois' recent trip to New York. Rose had a picture of her and Juleka buying some new things for her scrapbooking. Then a recent picture updated it was a picture of Alya being tagged to a post of Lila it was them two sitting in the cafeteria along with Nino, Kim, and Alix. To which the description said ~Love having lunch with my besties.~ along with a couple of heart emojis. Of course it had over 30 likes in just a couple of minutes and comments about the picture. But one comment stood out of all the others it was Alya's ~We looked so cute in that pic.~ At that moment Marinette felt like someone had thrown a bucket of cold water to her face 'So she has time to comment and her picture. When they are clearly at school together, but she doesn't have time to answer my texts?!" Marinette simply took out the lucky charm that Adrien had given her for her birthday, 'Have I really been forgotten? I thought we were in this together Adrien.' She thought as she clutched the charm in her hand and started crying not noticing the purple butterfly coming towards her. Landing on the charm in her hand, then hearing an ominous voice.